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''See also:'' 1667 In Science , Other Events Of 1668 , 1669 In Science and the List Of Years In Science .

ASTRONOMY

Isaac Newton invents the reflecting telescope

BIOLOGY

Francesco Redi disproves theories of the Spontaneous Generation of Maggot s in putrefying matter.

MATHEMATICS

Nicholas Mercator and William Brouncker discover an Infinite Series for the logarithm while attempting to calculate the area under a Hyperbolic Segment

BIRTHS

Hermann Boerhaave , Dutch Physician and Chemist who made Leiden a European centre of Medical knowledge (died 1738 )

DEATHS